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81. LAVINA⁴ FRAZIER (THOMAS N. FRAZIER³ JR., THOMAS SR.² FRAZIER, GEORGE THOMAS¹)³⁶ was born March 19, 1812 in Greene Co; Tennessee, and died January 27, 1901 in Darlington, Gentry Co; Missouri. She married LEWIS JEFFERSON CHRISTIAN³⁷ March 03, 1831 in Putnam Co; Indiana. He was born April 12, 1811 in Knox Co; Tennessee, and died March 26, 1896 in Darlington, Gentry Co; Missouri.

Notes for LAVINA FRAZIER:
Obituary of Levina Christian, died January 27, 1901; taken from
the January 31, 1901 issue of the Darlington Record.

Mrs. Levina Christian died of old age at the home of her son, J.S. Christian, last Sunday night, Jan. 27, aged 88 years, 9 months and 27 days. She was born in the state of Tennessee, her parents moving to Indiana in 1828. She was married to Lewis J. Christian in 1830. Thirteen children were born to this union, only three of whom survive. These are: T.N. Christian of Griswold, Iowa; Mrs. Malinda Spencer of Blair, Nebraska, and Joseph S. Christian of this place. Mrs. Christian moved with her husband to Missouri in 1848, and had lived in this county ever since that time. Her husband died in March 1896. She joined the Baptist church when only 16 years of age, and had lived a devoted Christian life. Owing to failing health, she had been unable to attend church services for many years, but she continued to hold her membership with the Long Branch congregation to the last, and died as she had lived - firm in the faith of happiness beyond the grave. In this community, where she lived for over half a century, Grandma Christian was loved by a host of friends, and these friends will join the family in mourning the loss of this good old Christian mother. A short funeral service was conducted at the grave by Rev. Shelby on Tuesday at 1 o'clock p.m., after which the remains were laid to rest in the Long Branch Cemetery.

More About LAVINA FRAZIER:
Burial: Long Branch Cemetary

Notes for LEWIS JEFFERSON CHRISTIAN:
Obituary of Lewis Christian. Died March 26, 1896; taken from the April 2, 1896 issue of the Darlington Record. It also appeared in the Albany Ledger.

Louis Jefferson Christian, one of the early settlers of Gentry County, died at his home 3 1/2 miles west of Darlington, on Thursday, March 26, 1896. Had he lived until the 12th of this month he would have been 85 years of age. He came to this county about 45 years ago. His wife, who has traveled life's pathways with him for nearly 66 years, is 84 years old, and still very active and strong for one of that age. Deceased was a kind parent, and an accommodating neighbor and friend. He was the father of 12 children, four of whom survive him. the remains were consigned to their final resting place in the Long Branch Cemetery, Friday, in the presence of a number of sorrowing friends and neighbors.

More About LEWIS JEFFERSON CHRISTIAN:
Burial: Long Branch Cemetary

Children of LAVINA FRAZIER and LEWIS CHRISTIAN are:

194.	i.	MARY JANE⁵ CHRISTIAN, b. 1833; d. 1882.
195.	ii.	THOMAS NEWTON CHRISTIAN, b. February 02, 1836, Putnam Co; Indiana; d. February 06, 1909.
	iii.	JAMES H. CHRISTIAN³⁸, b. 1841; d. February 04, 1863.

Notes for JAMES H. CHRISTIAN:
Civil War Veterans of Harrison County
The following list is of Harrison County Civil War Veterans, and some
information on their status or their whereabouts in 1891.
TWENTY-NINTH IOWA INFANTRY, COMPANY C
NAME OF VETERAN STATUS, OR WHEREABOUTS AS OF 1891

Christian, James H died on steamer Henry Clay, 2/4/1863

196.	iv.	MALINDA CHRISTIAN, b. January 17, 1842, Putnam Co; Indiana; d. August 02, 1915, Blair, NE.
197.	v.	GEORGE WILLIAM CHRISTIAN, b. 1844, Putnam Co; Indiana; d. August 17, 1893.
198.	vi.	SAMUEL O. CHRISTIAN, b. 1847, Putnam Co; Indiana; d. 1882.
199.	vii.	JOSEPH SMITH CHRISTIAN, b. January 22, 1851, Gentry Co; Missouri; d. June 15, 1918.
200.	viii.	LENNOX KNIGHT CHRISTIAN, b. March 05, 1854, Darlington, Gentry Co., MO; d. October 16, 1896.
201.	ix.	GENNETA ADELAIDE CHRISTIAN, b. December 19, 1857; d. August 1884.
202.	x.	HENRIETTA ADELINE CHRISTIAN, b. 1857; d. 1866.

82. CHAMPION (CHAMPAN)⁴ FRAZIER (THOMAS N. FRAZIER³ JR., THOMAS SR.² FRAZIER, GEORGE THOMAS¹)³⁹ was born December 12, 1813 in Greene Co; Tennesee, and died February 22, 1895 in Missouri Valley, Harrison Co; Iowa. He married MARY MAGDALENE REEL February 10, 1836 in Reelsville, Putnam Co; Indiana. She was born September 19, 1815 in Butler twp; Montgomery Co; Ohio, and died June 03, 1865 in Missouri Valley, Harrison Co; Iowa.

Notes for CHAMPION (CHAMPAN) FRAZIER:
Champan Frazier (Council Bluffs, Iowa newspaper)

Champan Frazier died at the old farm near Mo.Valley, Ia on Friday evening,
Feb. 22, 1895 at the age of 81.

In the death of Champan Frazier, Harrison County loses one of her oldest and most noted pioneers, whose home was a landmark in this county when the bison and the deer yet fed unscared on her loftiest hills, and the eagles rested where now floats the flag from our public school towers.

Born in East Tennessee, the southern cradle of human liberty of ancestry in whose veins flowed the blood of Scottish Coventers, bravest and hardiest of men, enured to the hardships, exposures and trials of frontier life.

Champan Frazier was an example of the real genuine American manhood, which by sheer force of character carved from the wilderness in fifty years, the civilization which men now enjoy, the noblest and best the world ever knew. Contemporary in citizenship with Lincoln, Calhoun, Allen G. Thurman, Andrew Jackson and Thomas Thurman, his soul was ever alive to the revielle of national, political and commercial progress of which he knew and felt himself to be a part. The old-fashioned family whose fount and head was as Abraham to the Israelites, was his ideal.

His father's household consisted of five sisters and four brothers and after that pattern he built his own household or family alter. He married Mary Reel in Indiana in 1836. She was a neice of Henry reel of Logan, Ia. Also Thomas Copeland of Loveland, both deceased and a cousin of H.B. Cox and Percy Reel. To them were born Thomas J. Frazier, Mo. Valley, Ia., Wm. Frazier, Custer, Nebr., J. C. Frazier who died defending the Union in 1863, G.W. Frazier, Fremont, Nebr., Joseph Frazier who still retains the old homestead, Mrs. Anna Cole, Mo.Valley, Ia., Nattie Carroll, Lake Charles, La., Mrs. Emily Darting, Mo.Valley, D.P. Frazier, Boise, Idaho, Mrs. Jennie Armstrong and Mrs. J. O. McElroy, Onawa, Ia.

Champan Frazier came to Iowa with his little flock in 1854 and in 1855 located on the farm where he died, which he bought of one Mr. Gurley who had recently preempted it. There was no house nearer than H. B. Coxs' present home. One house was built on (Bala Lake?) in 1855, 8 miles N. E. and being on the main road between Hanesville (Co.Bluffs) and Sioux City his great old fashioned house was often the wayside inn for weary travelers, snownbound freighters and restless homeseekers still farther westward bound. His life was a part and parcel of those early days on the bleak uninhabited prairies of what is now the orchard-covered village-dotted homelands of the west.

When the shot was fired at the flag on Fort Sumter, resounded over those hills, was heard in the farm home, all the heroic blood of a generation of patriots bolted up in Champan Frazier and his stalworth sons, and three of them were soon enrolled as defenders of the Stars and Stripes of the Union, and against their native south were Thomas, George and John. The latter died at Memphis, Tenn. before the others came back to tell of the fights fought and won. The mother wearied with watching brokenhearted over the loss of her son in battle, and worn out with the life of pioneer hardships was laid away to await the summons to join the Israel in the new Jerusalem. What better ending than that.

Champan Frazier after 50 years of such experiences should live in another quarter of a century, an earnest observer of passing time, should go on a patriotic nat'l day when flags were flying and the few men of his age were lost in contemplation of the heroic works of the century now so near its close. The pages of history never knew Champan Frazier. While others stood at the Capital steps and sang her songs, he guarded her outposts, strengthened her frontier and built her strongholds. Without moral forces in the rank and file of American citizens, leaders, generals and statesmen were in vain. To them we owe tribute living or dead as much as to the scared veterans or the nations teachers, for without them the west would still be a wilderness. Their lives have given to this land of ours, the free and fertile west a moral tone without which life would be cheaper than it now is, land would be cheaper, schoolhouses would be cheaper and many pages of heroic history yet unwritten. For these pioneers let us be thankful and in their memories let us be true.
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Champan Frazier Cemetery just north of Missouri Valley, IA. It is located in a small grove of trees in the middle of a corn field on top of a bluff. Champan and Mary Frazier's graves are inside a 10 x 10 fence. A few other stones are resting inside the fence.

More About CHAMPION (CHAMPAN) FRAZIER:
Burial: On his farm, Harrison Co; IA

Notes for MARY MAGDALENE REEL:

More About MARY MAGDALENE REEL:
Burial: On their farm in Harrison Co; IA

Children of CHAMPION FRAZIER and MARY REEL are:

203.	i.	THOMAS JOHN (TWIN)⁵ FRAZIER, b. January 05, 1838, Reelsville, Putnam Co; Indiana; d. May 31, 1905, Missouri Valley, Harrison Co; IA.
	ii.	FRANCIS CINA FRAZIER, b. December 29, 1836; d. 1839.
	iii.	SARAH ANN FRAZIER, b. January 05, 1838, Reelsville, Putnam Co; Indiana; d. October 1920, Huntington Beach, Orange Co; California; m. (1) HENRY BLACKBURN REEL, March 27, 1861, Missouri Valley, Harrison Co; Iowa; b. 1828, Putnam Co; Indiana; d. February 17, 1863, Helena, Phillips Co; Arkansas; m. (2) ETHAN COLE, October 25, 1871, Harrison Co; Iowa; b. March 1832; d. Aft. 1920.

Notes for SARAH ANN FRAZIER:
Twin to Thomas John Frazier

Notes for HENRY BLACKBURN REEL:
Died during the Civil War.

iv.

EMILY ELISABETHON FRAZIER, b. December 07, 1840, Reelsville, Putnam Co; Indiana; d. July 12, 1921, Missouri Valley, Harrison Co; Iowa; m. JOHN HENRY "POSTLE JOHN" DARTING⁴⁰, March 16, 1865, Missouri Valley, Harrison Co; Iowa; b. November 25, 1837, Brazil, Clay Co; Indiana; d. October 09, 1915, Missouri Valley, Harrison Co; Iowa.

More About EMILY ELISABETHON FRAZIER:
Burial: Rosehill Cemetery

Notes for JOHN HENRY "POSTLE JOHN" DARTING:
Civil War Veterans of Harrison County
The following list is of Harrison County Civil War Veterans, and some
information on their status or their whereabouts in 1891.
TWENTY-NINTH IOWA INFANTRY, COMPANY C

Darting, John H Mo. Valley, IA
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More About JOHN HENRY "POSTLE JOHN" DARTING:
Burial: Rosehill Cemetery

JAMES COLOMBUS FRAZIER, b. February 02, 1843, Putnam Co; Indiana; d. March 11, 1863, Memphis, Shelby Co; Tennessee.

Notes for JAMES COLOMBUS FRAZIER:
Died in the Civil War, Memphis, TN

204.	vi.	GEORGE WASHINGTON FRAZIER, b. March 11, 1846, Putnam Co; Indiana; d. April 14, 1927.
	vii.	LUVINA CAROLINE FRAZIER, b. January 25, 1850; d. 1900; m. GEORGE B. DARTING, June 1876; b. December 1851, Indiana; d. May 07, 1927, Polk Co; Oregon.
	viii.	DANIEL REEL FRAZIER, b. September 05, 1852; d. 1909; m. MATILDA J..
	ix.	MARTHA MALINDA "MATTIE" FRAZIER, b. September 08, 1839, Reelsville, Putnam Co; Indiana; d. 1921; m. (1) JAMES W. GIVENS, December 07, 1861; b. 1830, Indiana; d. Bef. 1870; m. (2) REV. LANDIS J. CORRELL, February 29, 1876, Harrison Co; Iowa; b. October 08, 1822, Williamsville, Erie Co; New York; d. January 22, 1906, Arnold, Custer Co; NE.
205.	x.	WILLIAM ANTHONY WAYNE FRAZIER, b. December 06, 1841, Putnam Co; Indiana; d. September 13, 1926, Missouri Valley, Harrison Co; Iowa.
206.	xi.	RUHANA JANE FRAZIER, b. June 26, 1844, Putnam Co; Indiana; d. November 02, 1921, Harrison Co; Iowa.
207.	xii.	JOSEPH HENRY FRAZIER, b. August 16, 1847, Reelsville, Putnam Co; Indiana; d. August 24, 1919, Omaha, Douglas Co; Nebraska.
	xiii.	BARBARA CATHERINE "KATE" FRAZIER, b. April 23, 1851, Reelsville, Putnam Co; Indiana; d. April 21, 1921, Onawa, Monona Co; Iowa; m. JOSEPH O. MCELROY, 1879, Mo. Valley, Harrison Co; Iowa.

More About BARBARA CATHERINE "KATE" FRAZIER:
Burial: Onawa Cemetery; Monona Co; Iowa

208.

xiv.

SAMUEL REILLY FRAZIER, b. August 09, 1857, Missouri Valley, Harrison Co; Iowa; d. January 25, 1931, Payette, Payette Co; Idaho.

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